QUICKIES
for JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2001

Mercifully short tidbits of news and/or analysis and/or comment.








Posted here for 2-26-01:

"Figures released by Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, show Mr. Clinton deployed military forces 40 times, compared with 14 times under President Bush and 16 times under President Reagan."
-- From "General Clinton", Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 19-25, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Since 1995, the production of cocaine in Columbia has doubled. During this same period of time, according to statistics cited in Harper's magazine last fall, U.S. military aid to Bogota has increased by a remarkable factor of 31."
-- From "The Right Answers," The New American, February 26, 2001, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"[M]embership in the Ku Klux Klan . . . has shrunk so dramatically that the Klan would have been out of business years ago but for FBI infiltration. In some chapters the only members with paid-up dues are FBI informants."
-- From "When a Hate Crime Is Something to Love," by Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 12-18, 2001, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"About half of today's young adults pay no appreciable attention to news. They don't read a daily newspaper, nor closely follow the news on television."
-- From "Not Interested," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 12-18, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Johnny Cochran and a group of successful trial lawyers plan to bring class-action suits against the federal government and some private companies they say profited from slavery. Rep. John Conyers (D.-Mich.) has already introduced HR 40, titled 'Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.' HR 40 has 48 cosponsors and a number of them, such as Jim Traficant (D.-Mich) and Jerry Nadler (D.-N.Y.) are white."
-- From "Does America Owe Reparations?" by Walter E. Williams, Human Events, February 19, 2001, page 13. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[Liberals] want to impose a 75-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline to pay for Reparations for descendants of slavery."
-- From an undated solicitation letter from J.A. Parker, president, Abraham Lincoln Foundation for Public Policy Research. Address: PO Box 96724, Washington, DC 20090-6724.


"[T]he New York Post reports that Denise Rich visited the White House an astounding 100 times during 2000."
-- From "Hillary Watch," Human Events, February 19, 2001, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[T]he Clintons began taking and shipping off the disputed White House furniture to their newly purchased home in New York more than a year ago . . . ."
-- From "Hillary Watch," Human Events, February 19, 2001, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 2-19-01:

"Barely 6 percent of Fortune 1000 CEOs surveyed watched all three of the recent presidential debates, but 21 percent said they didn't miss 'The Simpsons.' Perhaps even more scary, according to a poll conducted by Jericho Communications, 33 percent of the CEOs were able to name more members of the new 'Survivor' cast than President Bush's Cabinet nominees."
-- From "Culture Gap," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 5-11, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman, writing in the American Prospect, called on Senate Democrats to refuse to accept anyone nominated for the Supreme Court by President Bush."
-- From "A Modest Proposal," Inside Politics, by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 5-11, 2001, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Senator Hillary Clinton has been selected by the Internet's largest 'gay' website as its 'Person of the Year' for 2000. The site's senior producer Jenni Olson says Hillary deserves the honor because of her support for homosexual marriage, special employment rights for gays and lesbians, and her participation in New York's gay pride parades."
-- From "Perverts Love Hillary," From Far and Wide, Midnight Messenger, January-February 2001, page 2. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website.


"The insurance company for the pawnshop that lawfully sold a gun used to kill a Florida teacher agreed to pay the widow $275,000 -- even though the sale was made 13 years ago to a man who later transferred it to the alleged killer's grandfather from whose house the gun was taken without permission."
-- From "Tyranny at Work," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Dr. Tricia Cusack, an art historian at England's Birmingham University, [has found the] deep meaning underlying the building of a snowman. Her paper, entitled 'The Christmas Snowman, Carnival and Patriarchy,' argues that the snowman is a racist, sexist symbol of the greed of capitalism and nationalism."
-- From "Welcome to the Asylum," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2001, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"[T]here are between 85,000 and 110,000 Red Chinese nationals in Panama, and Beijing has invested $55 billion in Panama."
-- From "Red Dragon Over Panama," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, February 12, 2001, page 22. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 2-12-01:

"According to a 1971 U.S. blueprint, the AIDS virus is a 'designer' virus created for 'population stabilization' purposes in accordance with the strategies and policies of the national security of the United States."
-- From "AIDS: Designed with Purpose & Intention," by Boyd E. Graves, The Oil Patch, February 2001, page 1. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website.


"Ritalin use is at an all-time high. The financial windfall from Ritalin sales surpasses that of Valium, Viagra or Prozac."
-- From "Drug Evasion Now a Crime -- Swallow This!" by Samuel Walker in The Detroit News, as published in The Oil Patch, February 2001, page 3. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website.


"The Russian health care system is 'staggering': 40 percent of the nation's hospitals and clinics lack hot water or sewage disposal. Only about 25 percent of Russian babies are born healthy. Only 5 percent to 10 percent of Russian children are healthy."
-- From "Socialism Is Killing Russia," by Arnold Beichman, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 29-February 4, 2001, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The CDC [Centers for Disease Control] has reported that some 65 million U.S. citizens -- more than a fourth of the population -- now carry at least one STD [Sexually Transmitted Disease]."
-- From "News of Interest," American Family Association Journal, February 2001, page 6. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"Proving that no common-sense law is beyond a court challenge, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it would immediately sue to stop implementation of a new congressional measure that requires public libraries to install pornography-blocking software to protect children from smut. The American Library Association (ALA) said it may also challenge the law."
-- From "News of Interest," American Family Association Journal, February 2001, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"After taking opponent Rick Lazio (R-NY) to task during the campaign for missing votes, the new-crowned Queen of the Senate failed to show up for his first scheduled vote. . . ."
-- From "Capitol Offenses," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, February 2001, page 14. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"The Hippocratic Oath has been a critical first step in the professional life of a doctor for a very long time. However, for the last 25-30 years medical students have not been required to take the Hippocratic Oath in the United States. This may be a minor point to some people, but to those who are pro-life to the core, it is a very important step on the slippery slope towards legalized genocide in this country."
-- From "'Mercy Killing' and the Hippocratic Oath," by Clare Kaldawi, Letters to the Editor, The New American, February 12, 2001, page 3. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"[S]ince Texas beefed up its use of the death penalty in the 1990s, the overall murder rate has fallen by 60 percent."
-- From "What Gun Control Advocates Don't Want Americans to Know," The American Sentinel, February 2001, page 11. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.


"Over the last 50 years, around the turn of each decade, we have slipped into a recession."
-- From "The Perfect Story -- the Gathering Clouds of an Economic Tempest," supplement to The American Sentinel, February 2001. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.




Posted here for 2-5-01:

"California produces less power per resident than any other state and imports one-quarter of its energy from places as far away as Quebec."
-- From "Tracing California's Power Debacle to Environmentalists of the 1970s," Human Events, January 29, 2001, page 12. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[F]ewer than 10% of the Secret Service agents showed up for their photo opportunity with [the] outgoing President."
-- From "After Clinton, Only Way Is Up," by Bill Fangio, Conservative Forum, Human Events, January 29, 2001, page 23. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[In the Christmas issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a] group of developmental pediatricians say that Pooh is obsessive-compulsive, Eeyore is chronically depressed, Piglet needs medication, Roo is a juvenile delinquent in-the-making, and Christopher Robin has gender issues. . . Pooh is even in danger of developing Tourette's Syndrome because he suffers from an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and an obsessive compulsive disorder."
-- From "The Horrors at Pooh Corner," Reductio Ad Absurdum, Heterodoxy, November/December 2000, page 3. Address: PO Box 67398, Los Angeles, California 90067. E-mail. Website.


"In Africa, the main cause of AIDS is economic. AIDS generates far more money from Western countries than any other infectious disease. As an example, in Uganda in 1992 WHO allotted $6,000,000 to fight AIDS but only $57,000 to fight all other infectious diseases. This is why many African doctors diagnose almost everything as AIDS, including TB, malaria, hepatitis, malnutrition, herpes, diabetes, even car accidents. These diagnoses bring wealth to themselves and their countries."
-- From "Letters from Readers," by Alfred Ratz, American Renaissance, February 2001, page 2. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"By 2050 the whites will be a minority of the US population, as they already are in California."
-- From "Off Come the Gloves," American Renaissance, February 2001, page 11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 1-22-01:

"Civil union law in Vermont has 'united' more than 800 same sex couples since the law took effect July 1. Over 600 of these are from outside that state."
-- From "In Brief," Choice for Truth, November/December 2000/January 2001, page 5. Published by Mission: America, PO Box 21836, Columbus, Ohio 43221-0836. Phone: 614-442-7998. E-mail.


"Under California's sweeping new gun ban, some pistols that have magazines located forward of the trigger guard are classified as 'assault weapons.' This includes, of course, some of the finest target pistols in the world, including the type used in Olympic competition. The most rabid anti-gun politicians in the state suggested that the only solution was for California's Olympic shooters to give up their sport or move out of the state. But under legislation signed by Gov. Gray Davis, California Olympic shooters can now practice and compete without the threat of being locked up as felons. . . ."
-- From "California Exempts Olympic Shooters from Ban," America's First Freedom, February 2001, page 18. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"Reform Jewish leaders want to force the Boy Scouts of America to include homosexuals and are calling on its members to renounce the organization and withdraw all financial support."
-- From "Reform Jewish Leaders Pressure Scouts on Homosexual Ban", by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 15-21, 2001, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Recent Defense Department numbers show that 211,000 American servicemen are stationed overseas in 139 nations."
-- From "Bring the Troops Home!", The New American, January 29, 2001, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"In June or 1987, Steven Mark Brown [alleged illegitimate son of LBJ] filed a $10.5 million lawsuit against Lady Bird Johnson for his rightful share of his father's estate, believing that in a public forum the truth would come out. However, Steven underestimated the power of his enemies. After a short period of drastic harassment and intimidation, during which he refused to back off, Steven disappeared. Madeleine [Steven's mother] hired a private detective who found him three months later in a hospital bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Steven died of cancer at age 39 two years later, and the suit was never settled."
-- From "Lyndon and Madeleine," by Pat Shannan, Media Bypass, January 2001, page 23. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Clintons had to establish a residence in New York for Hillary to run for the Senate. So they bought that big house. But there was no place for Secret Service, which has statutory responsibility to protect the First Family. So, a special 'safe area' was built. Now, the Clintons are charging them rent! Perfectly legal. Hmmmmmmmm. But, it just so happens that their rent is about the same amount as the Clintons' mortgage payment! In short, we taxpayers pay for the Secret Service addition, and the Clinton's mortgage! What a deal, eh?"
-- From an e-mail reporting a Fox News item.


As many as hundreds of staffers who worked for Bill Clinton's White House left a surprise for the incoming administration: On their government-owned (not personally owned) computer keyboards they removed, disabled, or damaged the letter "W", demonstrating once and for all that liberalism and decency are so often perfect strangers.
-- From MSNBC, Chris Mathews and Brian Williams, 1-23-01.




Posted here for 1-22-01:

"According to [Yorktown University] President and CEO Richard J. Bishrijian, the National Association of Scholars estimates that only 5% of the faculty at America's colleges and universities are political conservatives."
-- From "How to Train Right Thinkers," by Deborah K. Lambert, Squeaky Chalk, CampusReport, January 2001, page 2. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"Michael Marcavage . . . distributed [a flyer] at Temple University encouraging Christians to object to the staging of the play Corpus Christi. Following a dispute with administration officials, Marcavage was forcibly taken for psychiatric treatment." [Let's all review once again what the First Amendment says about freedom of speech.]
-- From "Junior Dragged to Psych Ward After Dispute over Blasphemous Play," American Family Association Journal, January 2001, page 1. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"Sacajawea [whose likeness proudly graces our new 'golden' dollar coin] was one of two teenage slave concubines owned by a French-Canadian trader named Toussaint Charbonneau. . . Charbonneau won her and the other concubine in a bet." [What a fine symbol for an American coin. Not!]
-- From "Sacajawea, Political Correctness Coined," by W. Blasi, Free American Newsmagazine, January 2001, page 40. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"Three Russian Jews and eight Italian Jews were arrested after police discovered they had been kidnaping non-Jewish children between the ages of two and five years old from Russian orphanages, raping the children, and then murdering them on film. Mostly non-Jewish customers, including 1700 nationwide, 600 in Italy, and an unknown number in the United States, paid as much as $20,000 per film to watch little children being raped and murdered."
-- From "Jewish Child Porn/Snuff Film Ring Discovered," by the Associated Press, as reported in Free American Newsmagazine, January 2001, page 46. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"[The] Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 'immigrants' account for over 40% of all TB in the U.S. . . . [The] CDC reports over 40,000 immigrants with HIV come to the U.S. annually as 'refugees'. The cost of treatment is over $10 billion per year."
-- From "Immigrant 'Controbutions,'" 9*1*1, December 2000, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website.


"The same Chinese company that recently took operational control of the Panama Canal is currently completing construction of the largest container port in the world in Freeport, Bahamas -- just 60 miles from Florida."
-- From "Chinese Company Completes World's largest Port in Bahamas," by Christopher Ruddy and Stephan Archer, Free American Newsmagazine, October 2000, page 39. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"[The] Foundation Watch newsletter reports that [Jane] Fonda funded a new foundation group that surfaced only weeks before the November 2000 elections. Named the 'Pro-Choice Vote,' the organization served as a pro-Gore cash conduit to 'educate the public about the issue of choice in the elections.'"
-- From "Has Jane Fonda, the Born-Again Christian, Really Changed Her Sots?", The American Sentinel, January 2001, page 5. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.


"[The] American Bankers Association confirms that nearly 90% of U.S. banks remain in 'voluntary' compliance with the 'defeated' 'Know-Your-Customer' regulation. . . . Perhaps the most important motivation banks have to spy on their customers is because by 'cooperating,' they are exempt from legal liability for 'financial crimes' that might be committed by a depositor. . . ."
-- From "Federal Establishment Ignores Public Opposition to Bank Spying," The American Sentinel, January 2001, page 8. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.


"IBM chairman and chief executive officer Louis Gerstner has asked Americans to 'envision a day when we vote . . . from our home or workplace . . . or a day beyond that when issues are presented to all the people of the world and we vote as a global statement of individual preference without regard for conventions like political parties or national borders. . . ." [This will be the day when the Great American Experiment will have been proven to be a complete failure.]
-- From "Protecting the Vote," by Robert W. Lee, The New American, January 15, 2001, page 14. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 1-15-01:

"In apparent violation of U.S. civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination on a basis of national origin, the left-wing Ford Foundation will spend $330 million over the next ten years to create a far-reaching graduate study program to train the next generation of international elites among only the foreign-born."
-- From "American Citizens to be Excluded from Ford Foundation Scholarship Program," Middle America News, January 2001, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"[A]ccording to Rudy Comacho, director of field operations for the Southern California Customs Management Center in San Diego. . . American authorities at the border intercepted 18,430 pounds of cocaine in 2000, an 86 percent increase over 1999."
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, January 2001, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"After the ban of DDT to control mosquito populations, the rate of deadly malaria is rising. About 2.5 million people die of the 500 million malaria cases each year worldwide." [Now that DDT has been found to have little to no effect on animals and birds, why is its use still prohibited? Do you suppose environmentalists are "comfortable" with the death of two and a half million people each year?]
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, January 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"At least 445 Florida felons voted illegally last Nov. 7, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald.. . . More than 75 percent of the illegal votes were cast for Democrat candidates." [Does that surprise you?]
-- From "Florida Felons Voted Illegally," Middle America News, January 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Muslim students are permitted to worship in public school buildings during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a November report in the New York Post." [I guess "separation of church and state" really means "separation of Christian church and state".]
-- From "Florida Felons Voted Illegally," Middle America News, January 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Foxnews.com reported that a Cornell law professor and a Washington lawyer argue in a law review journal that abstinence-only sex education classes in public schools may be 'unconstitutional' because abstinence is related to religious teaching." [Make that "Christian religious teaching."]
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, January 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Indonesian Muslims recently slaughtered 93 Christians on the small island of Kasiui in the Moluccas chain for refusing to convert to Islam, according to reports from Maranatha Christian Center in Ambon, the Moluccas capital.." [How come this isn't big news?]
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, January 2001, page 11. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Many [South African] parents are willing to sell children as young as four in what are the equivalent of sex-slave markets. . . It is reportedly common to make the children do housework when they are not servicing their 'masters.' By some estimates there are 38,000 child prostitutes in South Africa, with a high concentration in Cape Town. Demand is so high smugglers bring children in from Angola, Zimbabwe, and even Eastern Europe."
-- From "News from South Afrida," American Renaissance, January 2001, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"[A]s a result of the 2000 census, Arizona, Georgia, Florida and Texas each will be allotted two more seats in the House. New York and Pennsylvania will lose two each."
-- From "Census Finds U.S. Population Has Soared to 281 Million," by August Gribbin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 1-7, 2001, page 7. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Russians made Communist leader Vladimir Lenin their top choice as the nation's 'man of the century,' followed by dictator Josef Stalin, the Interfax news agency reported on Dec. 26. The poll asked 1,500 persons across Russia to name a choice without offering any suggestions."
-- From "Russians Vote for Lenin as 'Man of the Century;' Stalin Runner-Up," (AP), The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 1-7, 2001, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 1-8-01:

"George W. Bush won in 2,434 counties while Gore won just 677 counties; Bush's counties covered 2,427,039 square miles of the nation, while Gore's totaled 580,134; the population in Bush's counties totaled 143 million, while Gore's trailed at 127 million. . . Bust took 14% of the counties with the highest growth rate while Gore took only 5%. . . ."
-- From "Proof that the Electoral College Works," The DeWeese Report, January 2001, page 3, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.


"In November, in retaliation for the forcible removal of the boy [Elian Gonzalez], Cuban-Americans voted more heavily than usual for Republican George W. Bush. 'If the boy Elian had not been sent back to Cuba, today Al Gore would be President,' said Ramon Saul Sanchez, the leader of the Democracy Movement and a chief organizer of the demonstrations that tried to prevent Elian's removal."
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, December 29, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600.


"Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck reported . . . ground-breaking research showing that guns are primarily used by victims (or would-be victims) to thwart criminals, not the other way around. . . . 'Probably the highest estimate of the number of crimes committed in any one year with a gun is about a million.' said Kleck, 'versus about two-and-a-half million defensive gun uses. . . ."
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, December 29, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600.


"The Heritage Foundation has issued its annual Free Enterprise Index, concluding that economic freedoms have expanded in 70 nations while 52 others have imposed new regulations to further restrict their market place. The United States dropped from fourth place last year to a tie with tiny Luxembourg for fifth in 2000."
-- From "U.S. Slips a Natch on Free Enterprise Index," The DeWeese Report, January 2001, page 7, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.


"The London Telegraph reported on November 15 that two Russian fighter and reconnaissance planes penetrated the U.S. Pacific Fleet's defense umbrella and buzzed the American aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. . . The Russian newspaper Izvestiya said, 'If these have been planes on a war mission, the aircraft carrier would definitely have been sunk.'"
-- From "U.S. Pacific Fleet no Match for Russian Air Force," Discerning the Times, November 2000, page 4. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"During [a] training exercise in the Negev desert between Israeli air force F-16 pilots and U.S. Navy pilots from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Israeli air force pilots, according to the Jerusalem Post, 'shot down' 220 Navy 4-14s and F-18s while only 'losing' 20 F-16s. In one exercise, the paper said, the reported kill ratio was 40:1 in the Israelis' favor, an outcome so stunning, according to an Israeli officer quoted by the Post, the results weren't made public to 'save the reputations of U.S. Navy pilots.'"
-- From "U.S. Pacific Fleet no Match for Russian Air Force," Discerning the Times, November 2000, page 4. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"When the [Arkansas] State Highway Department announced that it would soon take down the 100 highway signs posted at the state's borders boasting that Bill Clinton is a native son, the department said it would make some of them available to museums and others to preserve as 'historical artifacts.' So far only 10 requests have been filed. Says one employee of the department: 'They're not our hottest item. We thought a lot of people would want them just for target practice. . . .'"
-- From "U.S. Pacific Fleet no Match for Russian Air Force," Discerning the Times, November 2000, page 4. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"[T]alk-show host Larry King . . . told [a gathering in Washington] that Bill Clinton is so close to leaving the White House he's 'dating again.'"
-- From "Political Motivation," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 18-24, 2000, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Clinton's indictment appears likely within weeks after leaving office."
-- From the Houston Chronicle, as reported by NewsMax.com ("Gennifer Flowers' Tapes Seen as Key to Clinton Indictment").




Posted here for 1-1-01:

"One can draw an analogy between the Electoral College and the World Series. The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1960 World Series 4-3, even though the New York Yankees outscored the Pirates in runs 55-27, and in hits 91-60. No one challenged the fact that the Pirates won fair and square."
-- From "The Way We Elect Our Presidents," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, December 2000, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"Diet Pepsi contains the FDA-approved artificial sweetener aspartame. Aspartame is an extremely volatile substance that, under ordinary storage conditions, breaks down quickly into methanol, a known neurotoxin. The methanol then breaks down into formaldehyde. The FDA has never established a safe level of formaldehyde that can be consumed by humans."
-- From "Michael J. Fox Foundation: Parkinson's Research Fraud," by Don Harkins, Midnight Messenger, November-December 2000, page 5. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website.


"[D]espite the propaganda about NAFTA, despite some 4000 maquiladora plants employing over a million workers, real wages in these plants have fallen to below where they were when NAFTA passed. Indeed, real wages in Mexico are now below where they were in 1980."
-- From "War with Mexico Emerging -- Trouble in the Neighborhood," by Patrick J. Buchanan, Midnight Messenger, November-December 2000, page 4. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website.


"Kelly Smith was enjoying his normal afternoon commute when he and another passenger were ordered off the bus, into the pouring rain, for discussing their religious beliefs."
-- From "Washington State Commuter Faces Religious Persecution on Public transit," Rutherford, Winter 2000, page 3. Address: PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906. Phone: 804-978-3888. Fax: 804-978-1789. E-mail. Website.


"The University of Surrey in Guilford, England just added some heft to its curriculum by appointing a professor of Airline Food. According to Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, University spokesmen said the move was intended to beef up the school's graduate and undergraduate course offerings in the 'In-Flight Catering' department."
-- From "Cardboard Gourmet," CampusReport, December 2000, page 2. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"America Online has been known to gun owners for some time for their support of anti-gun organizations and policies. They've donated large sums of money to liberal, anti-gun Democrat organizations to support people like Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. More recently, they've canceled accounts for firearms-related web sites on the grounds that such material is no different from pornography. . . . . Now, in another step toward the final elimination of gun owners from 'civilized society,' AOL has fired three exemplary workers for having firearms in their cars in order to go shooting at a range on their own time!"
-- From "AOL Fires Gun Owners," by Sarah Thompson, M.D., Media Bypass, December 2000, page 16. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.


"A NASDAQ-traded company has finally unveiled its long-touted and highly controversial 'Digital Angel' -- a subdermal microchip implant designed not merely for keeping tabs on pets, but for widespread, worldwide use in tracking human beings."
-- From "Digital Angel Unveiled," WorldNet, December 2000, page 31. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Reference.


"NewsMax.com broke a story written by David Bresnahan detailing the plan by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympics to exclude the Boy Scouts of America from serving as volunteers, or participating in their uniforms as Boy Scouts, in planned ceremonies."
-- From NewsMmax.com Website -- a Christopher Ruddy article.


"China took a giant step towards war against Taiwan and the US with the release of a white paper on October 16. Entitled, 'China's National Defense in 2000', the white paper raised threats of military force against Taiwan, and indirectly to the US to the highest level since Taiwanese president Chen Shiu-bian was elected. . . ."
-- From "China Plans for World Domination --Taiwan First," by Becky McGlauflin, Discerning the Times, October 2000, page 6. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"Humanity shook a perverse and sinful hand in the face of God with the news on Monday September 25, 2000 that male couples might soon be able to conceive a child. WorldNetDaily and BBC reported the stunning announcement that genetic techniques first used on Dolly the sheep could make it possible for two men to create a child. Dr. Calum MacKellar, a lecturer in biochemistry at Edinburgh University, believes scientific advances could result in a homosexual couple having a baby that combined the DNA of both fathers. But , , , there is a catch . . . To the chagrin of the homosexual, part of a woman's egg would still be required and so would a surrogate mother to bring such a child to term!"
-- From "This Perverse Generation," by Becky McGlauflin, Discerning the Times, October 2000, page 9. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.






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